Avid Media Composer 7 is the most widely used NLE for professional film and video editing. With Media Composer 7, you gain accelerated high-res-to-HD workflows, automated media management, and Interplay Sphere for Mac support, extending real-time production everywhere. Experience the fastest file-based media workflows, ACE-certified tools, and the most trusted media management in the industry
If you're a creative editor, you want an editing tool that not only makes storytelling simple, but helps you track your project, organize your media, and pull you through the trouble spots. That's why so many professionals trust their best ideas to Avid Media Composer. Unsurpassed creative tools, rock-solid media management, and the highest quality effects and output make Media Composer the most powerful editing solution available.
Faster and better than ever. Professional editors and producers like you around the world have told us what you need to succeed. More efficient and easy-to-use video editing tools. An open platform that enables you to work with everything you want and integrate into any workflow. More power to eliminate bottlenecks, so you can work faster than ever. We listened. We took notes. We made it happen.
Media Composer 7 - New Features:
Accelerate high-res workflows - More content today is shot with high-res cameras, but the majority of programming is still HD. With the new FrameFlex tools, you can immediately start working in HD directly from high-res sources and maintain full creative control of the image reframing and keyframing, from beginning to end. In addition, 1D/3D Look Up Tables (LUTs) and Color Decision Lists (CDLs) make it easy to perform real-time RAW and LogC to Rec. 709 color space conversions.
Automate media management - Gain more time for creativity with new features that accelerate and simplify file-based workflows. With Dynamic Media Folders, non-creative media tasks such as transcoding, copying, and consolidating can be automated in the background, without disrupting your editorial flow. Plus, you’ll get peace of mind as Media Composer now fully manages AMA-linked media as reliably as it does with native Avid media.
Extend real-time production everywhere - Edit, share, tag, track, and sync media and projects with everyone on your editing team - no matter where you are in the world. Media Composer Interplay Edition provides full Interplay Production, Interplay Central, and Interplay Sphere support on Mac and PC, making remote cloud-based collaboration easy and cost-effective. What’s more, you can edit just as efficiently as you would if you were all at the home facility, using the same tools and workflows you know and trust. (Interplay Edition only).
Gain total audio control - Forget wasting time mixing down audio levels by trial and error. With the new Master Audio Fader, you can insert RTAS plug-ins to tweak tones and optimize the overall program loudness, making broadcast regulation adherence quick and easy. You can also now make audio adjustments to any clip directly in the timeline - independently of any track-based automation - with the Clip Gain control.
Add Symphony as an option - Get advanced color, effects, and mastering tools, now available as an MC add-on.
And more:
* Get 9-way real-time multicam support for Long GOP (XDCAM) media
* Select multiple clips in the timeline without the filler
* Edit without interruption with new audio waveform caching
* View location sound metadata from Broadcast Wave files with support for iXML
* Deliver finished sequences to a standardized AS-11 (AMWA) MXF OP1a file
* Work with Alpha channel media using the new AMA QuickTime with Alpha plug-in
* Edit easier with new AMA enhancements (see how):
- Find what you need faster with the new AMA navigation window
- Consolidate or transcode only AMA clips in your sequence
- Relink to specified video and audio tracks in your timeline
- Speed through tasks with drag-and-drop support
* Edit on Windows 8 laptops and computers
System Requirements:
- Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64-bit), Windows 8 Professional or Enterprise (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Quad Core i7 or Quad Core Xeon processor
- Memory:
- 4 GB RAM minimum (6+ GB recommended)
- 8 GB RAM minimum required to support Interplay Sphere 2, background transcoding, and Dynamic Media Folders
- 16+ GB RAM recommended to support full-frame stereoscopic 3D, simultaneous background transcoding, Dynamic Media Folders, FrameFlex 4K workflows, Raw format AMA plug-ins, Long GOP media editing, and other high-performance workflows
- Graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro FX family3 (Q600 or higher recommended), Intel HD4000
- Internal hard drive: Minimum 250 GB 7200 rpm SATA drive, 128 GB SSD
Homepage :
http://www.avid.com/US/products/media-composer#overview

Hi. I can't get this App to open in the activated mode. It asks for License keys for each installed item when I go to click the "Activate" tab and also says there is not a license.bin file present. Also, during install, using the 4 pics given, after step 2 of the initial install there is a pop up window that says 3 items are needed to be installed and lists these items as being:
Pace License Support 2.0.0
Sentinel USB 7.6.6 Driver (this isn't shown in the pics)
Avid License Control
In the given jpg pic it only shows 2 items are required:
"Avid Media Composer requires the following 2 items to be installed on your computer. Click Yes to begin installing these requirements".
The 2 items shown are
Pace License Support 2.0.0 and
Avid License Control
Also, there is a request from Windows Security asking if you want to install the following device software?
"Avid DX Hardware
Publisher: Avid Technologies, Inc.
This isn't shown in the jpegs either.

Agree to install and have to reboot.
Next up is the installing of the MC7 Activation Patch. Click it open and follow the instructions as shown in the 3 Jpegs for this part of install (just as well for the Jpegs as I don't read Russian) and there is yet another pop up window that isn't shown in the Jpegs. After clicking the tab shown in Jpeg 2 for the "Only for VR internal beta - testing!!!", and the window shows that 3 entries: the top one reads " Media Composer Node Lock Activation" and it shows a greyed out square box with a tick mark inside of it, and beneath that are 2 other options, "Media Composer Dongle Emulator" which is a highlighted circle and beneath that is an empty circle that has text beside it that reads " Newscutter Dongle Emulator". I can't unhighlight the circle for Media composer Dongle Emulator unless i click into the Newsreader Dongle Emu circle. Really, all I want is the greyed out box for "Media Composer Node Lock Activation" because at the end of the install the instructions say that "At first start choose "Electronic Activation" for Node Lock Activation or choose "Hardware Key" for any dongle emulator activation. To switch activation mode just reinstall activation pack."
Try to cancel out the install of the thing so that the MC Dongle Emu isn't installed or chosen and the installation stops incomplete. So after agreeing to install as it is, there is not any show of the image for the VR nfo image that shows the screen oas it is in the JPEG of "Activated.AV.MC.
First start of the App and it asks
"At first start of application, choose "Electronic Activation" for
Node Lock Activation or choose "Hardware Key" for any dongle emulator
activation. To switch activation mode just reinstall activation pack."
Click to do the Electronic Activation and a window opens listing all the installed parts of the MC App and they are all "Not Activated". Click any of the Activate tabs and you're taken to a window that wants a Product key and a license.bin whatsit. I cannot get this AVC 7 to open as Activated. Why not?? Anyone know and can help me to get it a-go-go?? Would be much appreciated, thanks. I'm thinking of uninstalling and then re-installing and try to boot out the iLOK and the Dongle Emulator because I think that is whats screwing it, for me. Anyone managed to get the APP to open in anything other than Trial mode??

Hi. firstly, I had Internet turned off throughout the installing of this AVC7 APP, but I can't get this App to open in the activated mode. It asks for License keys for each installed item when I go to click the "Activate" tab and also says there is not a license.bin file present. Also, during install, using the 4 pics given, after step 2 of the initial install there is a pop up window that says 3 items are needed to be installed and lists these items as being:
Pace License Support 2.0.0
Sentinel USB 7.6.6 Driver (this isn't shown in the pics)
Avid License Control
In the given jpg pic it only shows 2 items are required:
"Avid Media Composer requires the following 2 items to be installed on your computer. Click Yes to begin installing these requirements".
The 2 items shown are
Pace License Support 2.0.0 and
Avid License Control
Also, there is a request from Windows Security asking if you want to install the following device software?
"Avid DX Hardware
Publisher: Avid Technologies, Inc.
This isn't shown in the jpegs either.

Agree to install and have to reboot.
Next up is the installing of the MC7 Activation Patch. Click it open and follow the instructions as shown in the 3 Jpegs for this part of install (just as well for the Jpegs as I don't read Russian) and there is yet another pop up window that isn't shown in the Jpegs. After clicking the tab shown in Jpeg 2 for the "Only for VR internal beta - testing!!!", and the window shows that 3 entries: the top one reads " Media Composer Node Lock Activation" and it shows a greyed out square box with a tick mark inside of it, and beneath that are 2 other options, "Media Composer Dongle Emulator" which is a highlighted circle and beneath that is an empty circle that has text beside it that reads " Newscutter Dongle Emulator". I can't unhighlight the circle for Media composer Dongle Emulator unless i click into the Newsreader Dongle Emu circle. Really, all I want is the greyed out box for "Media Composer Node Lock Activation" because at the end of the install the instructions say that "At first start choose "Electronic Activation" for Node Lock Activation or choose "Hardware Key" for any dongle emulator activation. To switch activation mode just reinstall activation pack."
Try to cancel out the install of the thing so that the MC Dongle Emu isn't installed or chosen and the installation stops incomplete. So after agreeing to install as it is, there is not any show of the image for the VR nfo image that shows the screen oas it is in the JPEG of "Activated.AV.MC.
First start of the App and it asks
"At first start of application, choose "Electronic Activation" for
Node Lock Activation or choose "Hardware Key" for any dongle emulator
activation. To switch activation mode just reinstall activation pack."
Click to do the Electronic Activation and a window opens listing all the installed parts of the MC App and they are all "Not Activated". Click any of the Activate tabs and you're taken to a window that wants a Product key and a license.bin whatsit. I cannot get this AVC 7 to open as Activated. Why not?? Anyone know and can help me to get it a-go-go?? Would be much appreciated, thanks. I'm thinking of uninstalling and then re-installing and try to boot out the iLOK and the Dongle Emulator because I think that is whats screwing it, for me. Anyone managed to get the APP to open in anything other than Trial mode??

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! ITS ALL IN CHINESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT READ CHINESE AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT FULLY ENGLISH WITHOUT CHINESE LETTERINGS ANYWHERE... IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE WAY TO FIX THIS!!!!????????

What I did was, I decided the possibly the reason it couldn't find its setup files was that Windows was blocking it. There is a nice little geek utility called Take Ownership which you can find online easily. It's very useful when you are having DRM problems such as deleting old Photoshop installs on other drives. I just ran it on the folder, it decided I owned all the files, and then it installed quickly and easily.